Baked Chicken to Die For!

When my husband and I got married I could not cook to save my life. It was pitiful. I decided to make baked chicken and ended up burning the outside of chicken, but the inside was still raw. That takes talent right there! And bless his heart, my husband always ate the food I made (not the raw chicken…we threw that out). When I had a genius idea to make spaghetti pie…he ate it. It was gross! However, over the years I’ve gotten quite good at cooking. Now I look forward to family dinners; I look forward to throwing parties at my house; and most of all, I get really excited to try a new recipe. Here’s an oven baked chicken recipe I tried tonight (adapted from the recipe found HERE).

*Post may contain affiliate links*

Baked Chicken with Garlic and Brown Sugar

Ingredients:

4 Boneless and skinless chicken breasts

4 Garlic cloves, minced

4 Tbs brown sugar

3 tsp olive oil

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and spray baking dish with oil (I used my Misto filled with olive oil…if you don’t have one of these, get one! I have two, one filled with olive oil and one filled with vegetable oil).

Put the olive oil in a small pan and saute the garlic until it is tender.

Remove the olive oil and garlic from heat and add the brown sugar.

Place chicken breasts into the baking dish and spread the brown sugar and garlic mixture over top of the chicken.

Place in the oven and bake for 30-45 minutes or until the chicken is cooked completely through.

Did The Like It?!?

My family LOVED this recipe for baked chicken. Even picky eaters (like my son) will love this recipe! Don’t have time to mince your own garlic? No worries! Pick up some jarred minced garlic and use that. One garlic clove is equal to about 1/2 teaspoon jarred, minced garlic. However, we like garlic in my family so I put a little extra in! I really recommend you use a meat thermometer when cooking chicken. For instance, in my oven, it took 42 minutes for my chicken to be cooked to the proper temperature. I wouldn’t have known that had I now had my meat thermometer! Trust me though, it was well worth the wait! Doesn’t it look delicious?!?

Made this tonight and my daughter loved it!!! I did have to add a little more olive oil to the sugar mixture and it did great. I think next time I make this I am going to put a little rosemary in the sugar mixture.

Okay.. I think my oven must get hotter than everyone else’s? This ended up a little dry and burnt? Fire alarm went off during cooking? I’m going to lower the temp next time because I really don’t think this was how it was supposed to turn out?

I’ve had bad luck with cooking chicken tenderloins in the oven. I usually use my George Foreman grill. However I do make chicken fingers from chicken tenderloins and I put them on a rack in a drip pan and turn the heat down. If you didn’t want to do it that way, another thing I would do would probably cover them with foil.

I’ve never made it in the crockpot, but when I do cook chicken in the crockpot, I cook it for about 6 hours. So I’d probably cook it on low for six hours, checking it with a meat thermometer after 5 hours.

Looked really good in the picture. Made it and it was the worst thing I’ve ever made. I followed the recipe exactly. What I got was sweet coated chicken, candied minced garlic, and (after it had all melted off the chicken) burnt brown sugar around the chicken breasts. I don’t know what went wrong.

I have two cut up chickens (16 pieces total) that I have cleaned and taken skin OFF.
I would like to bake it (dinner tonight, a lot of company).
Looking for a recipe. do you think this would work with skinless bone-in chicken?
I would mix it up, add rosemary and rub all over…then bake uncovered. what do you think?…
other suggestion?
thx!

Hi Krissy! If it were me, I would probably make 1 1/2 times the amount I listed so maybe 2 more TBS brown sugar, 1.5 tsp more oil and 1-2 more cloves of garlic (I would do 2 because I love garlic, but that’s up to you!).

I just prepared this recipe and in the oven now. I did add a little extra olive oil because the garlic and brown sugar mixture looked a bit dry. I’m wondering if you need to add any extra seasoning for flavor or does it already have good flavor?
As we all know chicken is very bland. Im cooking it on 375 and i did cover with foil because i don’t want it to dry out.

This sounds so yummy and so easy! Recipes like this are seriously my favorite – who has time to prepare meals that take forever each night! I could even maybe prep this as a freezer meal for the crock pot!

This is definitely simple enough that I could do it. I am right there with you when we first got married I can’t say I was a stellar cook. I have gotten better over the years but I still like simple and easy recipes.

One of my favorite chicken recipes is crockpot chicken. Just dump chicken into a crockpot and cover with a bottle of your fave BBQ sauce, set on high and dinner is ready in 4 hrs. Your recipe looks easy and would put dinner on the table in no time and I LOVE IT!

Current Giveaways!

FYI

All links on this site may be affiliate links and should be considered as such. Diaries of a Domestic Goddess is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. See our privacy policy for more information.